Laura Ingraham argues Trump’s agenda deserves to continue
Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham contends that Donald Trump’s policies have delivered economic, geopolitical and cultural gains and should continue, dismissing predictions that his brand of conservative populism is finished.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham argues that the policies of President Donald Trump have delivered enough results to justify their continuation, rejecting predictions that Trumpism and conservative populism are fading. In an opinion piece, she contends that the record should be judged on what has been accomplished rather than on midterm election forecasts.
Ingraham points out that similar declarations of the movement’s demise have followed Trump’s first impeachment, the 2020 election, the events of January 6, his second impeachment and each criminal indictment filed against him. She argues that Trump has been the most consequential world leader over the past decade and has accomplished more than any Republican president in at least the past century. In her view, the answer to whether his policies should continue is yes, on political, economic, geopolitical and cultural grounds.
On the political front, Ingraham writes that critics predicted Trump would destroy the Republican Party, but the opposite occurred. She contrasts the American right with its counterparts elsewhere in the West, noting that Canada has not had a conservative prime minister since 2015, that Britain’s Conservatives hold 118 of 650 seats in the House of Commons, and that Marine Le Pen has never topped 42 percent in a French presidential vote. Germany’s conservatives govern in coalition with the Social Democrats, and she cites praise from The Economist for Giorgia Meloni’s move toward the center in Italy. Ingraham argues that only in the United States has the right governed on low taxes, lighter regulation, social conservatism and a strong military while continuing to win elections.
On the economy, Ingraham credits Trump with working with Congress to cut taxes and roll back regulation, and with trimming the federal bureaucracy. She cites figures from The Washington Post showing the federal workforce shrank by 255,000 employees, or 12 percent, between December 2024 and June 2026. She also reports that real median household income rose from $77,230 in 2016 to a record $87,460 last year, measured in 2025 dollars. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, peaked at 6.6 percent in September 2022 and stood at 2.6 percent in September of the current period, while headline inflation was 3.7 percent. She points to OECD projections of 2.2 percent U.S. real GDP growth for 2026, the highest in the G7, and to third-quarter growth of 3.4 percent at an annualized rate, compared with 0.5 percent for the EU and roughly 1.3 percent for Canada.
Ingraham also cites IMF projections of 2026 GDP per capita of $95,212 in the United States, compared with $65,699 in Germany, $61,108 in Britain, $60,105 in Canada, $51,448 in France, $35,400 in Japan and $15,371 in China. On foreign policy, she argues that Trump has taken a more realistic view of China than his predecessors, pointing to tariffs that she says protected the American auto industry from state-subsidized Chinese vehicles and to moves on the Panama Canal and Greenland that she says limit Beijing’s influence in the hemisphere. She writes that the U.S. economic lead over China widened from a $7.3 trillion gap in 2016 to $11.3 trillion last year. Regarding Iran, she says Trump has severely degraded an Iranian military that threatened the region and notes Wall Street Journal reporting that Persian Gulf oil exports, including through the Strait of Hormuz and alternative routes, now exceed prewar levels.
On social policy, Ingraham writes that Trump fulfilled a long-standing Republican pledge on Roe v. Wade, which has been overturned, and that his judicial appointments have given the Supreme Court a solid conservative majority on most key constitutional questions for the first time since the early 1930s. Her column frames these outcomes as evidence that the agenda has earned its continuation, though it reflects the views of its author rather than a neutral assessment.
Source: foxnews.com
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